What is the ‘correct’ way to operate within the art world? Konsortium endeavours to answer this question decisively. Their roles as individual artists, as a collective, as an eight-year artist-run gallery, or as a curatorial laboratory are equivalent and indistinct. Alongside their individual careers, their collaboration results in diverse activity beyond the sum of its parts, fuelling their personal objectives while establishing a sort of global ecosystem composed of artist peers with similar interests.

In Vorsprung durch Technik, an attempt is made to represent the fluidity of these functions. The upper gallery comprises a collaborative wall drawing overlaid with individual works by Breuer, Freytag, and Münch; while downstairs they present their first-ever collaborative video installation. An offsite project, reconstituting the Konsortium project space in London, will occur later this year.

Founded in 2002, following overlapping studies at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Konsortium was best known for their project space on the then-unfashionable east side. After seventy-five exhibitions, the gallery shut in 2010, yet continues to organise exhibitions and produce new work worldwide.